The Changing Room, by British novelist and playwright David Storey, won the New York Critics' Best Play of the Year Award for 1972. The play, drawn from Storey's own experiences, takes place in the clubhouse of a rugby team. It examines the competitive nature of sports and the camaraderie that exists among teammates and was a precursor to Take Me Out in its use of onstage male nudity. First published in 1971 by Jonathan Cape, it is available in David Storey Plays: The Changing Room / Cromwell / Life Class, published by Methuen in 1996.

Peter Lefcourt's The Dreyfus Affair (1992) is an amusing novel about a very successful second baseman whose life starts unraveling when he finds that he is falling in love with the team's shortstop. When the men are caught kissing, they are banned from baseball for life.

Glenn Burke was an African...